VIDEO: Watch Ann Coulter Eviscerate Newt On 'Fox & Friends'

On a Sunday morning appearance on “Fox &
Friends,” conservative columnist Ann Coulter explained
why
Romney fell short in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary,
blaming the priorities of South Carolina voters for Gingrich’s
success.

“Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional
satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than to beat
Obama in the fall,” Coulter, the author of “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering
America,” said. “We saw it in the debates when Gingrich
would say things that didn’t really make sense. That is what you
usually associate with Democrats, which I described in my last
book, ‘Demonic,’ how mobs behave.”

Some of what Gingrich has said might appear to make sense,
she said, but should be analyzed more closely.

“Something that sounds like it makes sense like, ‘Mitt
Romney doesn’t have influence over his super PAC — that makes
you wonder if he’ll have influence as president,’” she
continued. “How many times does Mitt Romney have to say it is
illegal for a candidate to have influence on the super PAC. It is
not, interestingly, though, for a president to have influence. So
it makes no sense if you think about it for all of three seconds,
but it sounds like it makes sense. It is just like what you get
from liberals most of the time and the cheers and yahoos, and
that is what we kept getting from this audience.”

Coulter, who has been a Romney supporter since New Jersey Gov.
Chris
Christie said he would not be seeking the Republican
nomination, was asked if Romney should change his strategy
now that he suffered a defeat in South Carolina, and perhaps go
on the offensive with “fire in the belly.”

“No, he’s doing fine,” Coulter said. “This is not going be the
electorate in the fall. I am pretty sure we’ll get
everyone who voted for McCain — since no one voted for McCain
because we liked McCain — it was to stop Obama. We have those
voters. Now you have to get people who voted for Obama and
having a candidate who goes out and calls Obama a ‘Kenyan
colonialist,’ that is not what you need. And at the same time,
with Newt
Gingrich you get the name calling for the president — very
popular with the tea party crowd in South Carolina, not so
popular with independents. He won’t put a fence on the border
and wants amnesty for illegals. He took $1.6 million from
Freddie
Mac. But you know, he attacked Paul Ryan’s plan on Social
Security. So with Newt Gingrich, you throw out the baby and
keep the bath water.”

Coulter suggested that South Carolina voters ignoring
Gingrich’s marriage baggage was the product of the state
perhaps “going back to its Democratic roots.”

“I think South Carolina is going back to its Democratic roots,”
she said. “I mean, to not care about that, that’s the position
of the Democratic Party. The arguments I hear on behalf of
Gingrich on this is we heard for two solid years about Bill
Clinton. I never thought I would hear conservative make those
arguments. I promise you, if Mitt Romney or
Rick
Santorum have cheated on two wives — that we know, the open
marriage thing is the only thing he contests, we know he
cheated on two wives — I wouldn’t supporting Mitt Romney. I
wouldn’t support Rick Santorum.”